. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/DOM/158 
10 July 2012 
 (12-3717) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad , DIGENOR (Directorate-General of 
Standards and Quality Systems) 
Edificio de Oficinas Gubernamentale s "Juan Pablo Duarte", piso 11  
Avenida México esquina Leopoldo Navarro Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: (+1) 809 686-2205 Fax: (+1) 809 688-3843 E-mail: digenor@digenor.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [    ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where app licable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.140.20 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   NORDOM 67:
22-004, Café verde. Metodología para el análisis  sensorial cuantitativo descriptivo del café 
(Dominican Standard (NORDOM) No. 67:22-004:  Green coffee. Methodology for the quantitative descriptive sensory analysis of coffee) (16 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified Standard covers the following: Purpose, Definitions; 
Principle; Equipment; Sampling; General requi rements; Description of the method; and 
Results report. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To specify the methodology for the cupping analys is of samples of green coffee, namely the 
quantitative descriptive sensory analysis method. G/TBT/N/DOM/158 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
1. NTC 4883: Análisis Sensorial Café: Metodol ogía para Análisis Sensorial Cuantitativo 
y Descriptivo del Café  (Colombian Technical Standard No. 4883: Sensory analysis of 
coffee:  Methodology for the quantitative d escriptive sensory analysis of coffee); 
2. Reglamento 819-02 sobre la Recolección,  el Beneficiado, la Clasificación, 
la Exportación y la Industrialización del Café  (Regulation No. 819-02 on the 
harvesting, processing, grading, export and manufacture of coffee); 
3. Protocolo de catación SCAA  (Cupping protocol of the Specialty Coffee Association of 
America), 2009; 
4. Protocolo de análisis de ca lidad de café de PROMECAFE  (Coffee quality analysis 
protocol of the Regional Cooperative Progr amme for the Technological Development 
and Modernization of the Coffee-Growing Industry). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  } To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   20 August 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body: 
Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad (DIGENOR) 
Edificio de Oficinas Gubernamentale s "Juan Pablo Duarte", piso 11 
Avenida México esquina Leopoldo Navarro Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: (+1) 809 686-2205 Fax: (+1) 809 688-3843 
E-mail: cendocdigenor@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do